varg-video-prompting SKILL.md skillA
varg-video-prompting from varghq/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add varghq/skills/varg-video-prompting@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- varghq/skills
- Path
varg-video-prompting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Nov 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 3, 2026
- Size
- 32,614 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
How to prompt varg's video, image, voice and music models so shots come out right on the first or second take: the working loop (references, look bible, environment master, character sheets, approved stills, audio lock, animate, QA), which model for which shot (Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4, Lyria, lip sync), prompt anatomy for video, stills and edits, what @image1, @video1 and @audio1 references copy, dialogue and voice rules, a frame and…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# varg video prompting This skill is what a team that makes video on varg every day learned the expensive way: which model to use for which shot, how to write the prompt, what each reference actually copies, and how to check the result before anyone sees it. It extends the basics in `varg-ai` (`references/prompting.md` has the shot, lens and light vocabulary); it does not repeat them. Calling the tools (sign-in, `call_tool`, jobs, uploads): [references/mcp-tools.md](references/mcp-tools.md). Copy-paste prompts: [references/prompt-templates.md](references/prompt-templates.md). Per-model quirks: [references/models.md](references/models.md). Real runs and what they taught: [references/examples.md](references/examples.md). ## 0. Five rules before any prompt 1. **Fix stills, not clips.** A 5 s Seedance 2.5 clip at 720p costs about as much as 25-35 Nano Banana stills. The video model keeps every fault of its first frame or reference. Approve stills, then animate. 2. **Every recurring thing gets a frozen text and a frozen image.** Character, place, prop and look each get one paragraph pasted word for word into every prompt, plus one approved image passed as a reference. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add varghq/skills/varg-video-prompting@sha256:ae493059876f2aceThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Nov 3, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, more than one a day.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-11-04 | 013442f | 32,614 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-03 | b7f62d8 | 32,495 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-03 | d144355 | 27,335 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (32614 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
varghq/skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cc2tzq64i3rfwcjr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=varghq/skills/varg-video-prompting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ae493059876f2ace8e76becb7f458cae7b3e8a610245cb8d3fdbf95f1d2574e6
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